Reply #12: Bill remembers honest republicans. [View All]

In his day, they favored tort reform based on philosophical reasons. Today's republicans will not compromise for two main reasons.

First, it would give Democrats a victory that they could use to help win the next election.

Second, their new driving force is not an ideology but the money that comes from the corporate interests that will suffer if we get universal health care.

In the old days. This might have flown. Now, even if we volunteered to abandon all medical malpractice and legal recompense against doctors, pharma, and insurance, the republicans (and the blue dogs) would continue to lie and fight against anything that would help people over corporations. Since they have already said they are against even the co-ops, they will likely want to say they will let the insurance companies run the co-ops if we give them tort reform. Oh. And they want us to throw in more tax cuts for the wealthy. The problem is that with so many corporatocrats, they could probably succeed.